- ►diabetes.com.au [PDF] KGMM Alberti, P Zimmet, J Shaw - The Lancet, 2005 - Elsevier The ultimate importance of metabolic syndrome is that it helps identify individuals at high risk
of both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Several expert groups have therefore
attempted to produce diagnostic criteria. The first attempt was by a WHO diabetes group ... Cited by 2178 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
- ►asnjournals.org LF Fried, R Katz, MJ Sarnak, MG Shlipak, … - Journal of the American …, 2005 - Am Soc Nephrol Chronic kidney disease is associated with a higher risk for cardiovascular mortality, as well as
all-cause mortality. Whether chronic kidney disease is a predictor of noncardiovascular mortality
is less clear. To further explore the latter, the association of kidney function with total ... Cited by 77 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
- ►diabetesjournals.org CH Tseng - Diabetes Care, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—With a total of 1,124,348.4 person-years of follow-up, 43,888 patients died and the
crude mortality rate was 39.0/1,000 person-years. Mortality rates increased with age, and diabetic
men had a significantly higher risk of death than women. However, mortality rate ratio for ... Cited by 50 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
SS Soedamah-Muthu, JH Fuller, HE Mulnier, VS … - Diabetes Care, 2006 - Am Diabetes Assoc RESULTS—The hazard ratio (HR) for major CVD was 3.6 (95% CI 2.9–4.5) in type 1 diabetic
men compared with those without diabetes and 7.7 (5.5–10.7) in women. Increased HRs were
found for acute coronary events (3.0 and 7.6 in type 1 diabetic men and women, ... Cited by 39 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
HE Mulnier, HE Seaman, VS Raleigh, SS … - DIABETIC …, 2006 - interscience.wiley.com Methods A cohort of 44 230 patients aged 35–89 years in 1992 with Type 2 diabetes was
identified. A comparison group matched by year of birth and sex with no record of diabetes at
any time was identified (219 797). Hazards ratios (HRs) for all-cause mortality during the ... Cited by 32 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►oxfordjournals.org [PDF] C Jagger, E Goyder, M Clarke, N Brouard, A … - Journal of Public …, 2003 - Faculty Public Health Background The aim of the study was to investigate the fea- sibility of monitoring older people's
health by measuring active life expectancy among older people with and without diabetes using
routinely collected primary care data. Methods The study comprised the first five rounds of ... Cited by 27 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
H Gylling, JA Tuominen, VA Koivisto, TA Miettinen - Diabetes, 2004 - Am Diabetes Assoc Little information is available on cholesterol absorption and synthesis in human type 1
diabetes. We studied these variables using serum cholesterol precursor sterol ratios to cholesterol
as surrogate markers of cholesterol synthesis and those of cholestanol and plant sterols ... Cited by 21 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
CV Iannucci, D Capoccia, M Calabria, F … - Current pharmaceutical …, 2007 - ingentaconnect.com Abstract: The metabolic syndrome is a long-term process, explained by the interaction of genetic
and environmental factors, that starts early in life and is involved in the pathophysiology of a
large percentage of cases with type 2 diabetes and atherosclerosis. A number of clinical ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
- ►bmj.com M Fisher - British Medical Journal, 2003 - heart.bmj.com Type 2 diabetes is increasing in prevalence and it is estimated that three million individuals in
the UK will have the disease by 2010. People with diabetes have a high risk of cardiovascular
disease—coronary heart disease is more prevalent, more extensive, and more diffuse. ... Cited by 20 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
MJ Thomason, JP Biddulph, CA Cull, RR … - Diabetic …, 2005 - interscience.wiley.com Methods Data were extracted from certificates recording 981 deaths which occurred between
1985 and 1999 in people aged 45 years or more who participated in the UK Prospective Diabetes
Study, to which 23 English, Scottish and Northern Ireland centres contributed. Diabetes ... Cited by 19 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
